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Updated: May 13, 2025
Blondin took hold of the tail-line, and the others brought up the rear. Thus comfortably, with a bright sun shining in the blue sky, I returned to Fort Wichikagan. We must turn away now, for a short time, to another, though not far distant, part of the Great Nor'-West. It is a more open country than that immediately around Fort Wichikagan, and lies to the south of it.
As he had expected, the surface of the snow had been drifted quite hard, so that he could dispense with snow-shoes altogether, and the four dogs found the sledge so light that they felt disposed now and then to run away with it; but Nazinred checked this propensity by holding on to the tail-line, thus acting as a drag.
Towards the afternoon the travellers draw towards the end of the lake, and then a spirit of mischief seems to enter into the wolf-like dogs, for, on turning round a point which reveals a wide reach of hard snow stretching away towards a distant group of buildings more than half buried in drift, they make a sudden bound, overturn the stalwart white man, jerk the tail-line from his grasp, and career away joyously over the ice, causing their bells to send up an exceeding merry and melodious peal.
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